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In any case, their chunk of the market never came close to Microsoft's. Also, Microsoft aggressively went after the domains of other companies, like trying to take over the Web (with some success). Apple is protecting their own market.

You do have to be careful about cooking the goose that lays the golden eggs, though. I don't feel like people are actually "playing the tape through," and thinking about the long-term ramifications of these policies.

Makes for an attractive customer base. I know that there have been a number of studies, that found Apple apps make a great deal more money, per app, than Android ones (I'm sure there are special outliers in both camps, though).

I make free apps. In my case, it has nothing to do with "snobbery." I've just been doing it for most of my adult life, so I'm invested in the platform, like many of us do.

I also enjoy working in a challenging environment. I've learned to adapt.

That's different from "doing what I want on my own device."

...anyone?

...Bueller?

Apple customers are a very lucrative demographic.

People that sell Apple apps, stand to make a lot of money; even if they have to pay 15% (unless they make over a mill).

But the reason that all those Apple customers love Apple (and they do; even if HN participants don't), is because of that walled garden and restrictive policy stuff.

So, if we destroy that, we are likely to also destroy the reason that so many people want access to the Apple ecosystem.

It's very much human nature, at work, here.

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Still, I suspect a lot of independent Web developers are sweating. It was already getting tough, but this is a coffin nail.

Good name.

Having thugs on speed dial opens a lot of doors.

I suspect one day at the top of HN's front page, will exhaust that.

That's a big reason I never mention my apps, here.

I've read that very passage in the Ts&Cs, numerous times, and it didn't sink in.

It will, now...

But it's not that simple. We definitely need to "pave the bare spots" (desire paths); It's just that we need to start off, at what we sincerely believe to be an optimal place, knowing that it isn't, in fact, optimal.

Goodreads is commercial, but it does a good job of describing books and series of books.

[UPDATE] Ah. Figured it out. It's the trailing period. I think HN removes it from the link.

I'm reading Deadly Quicksilver Lies, right now.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/series/49491-garrett-files

That's the dark side of these types of dependencies.

But they provide a great deal of utility, so I can understand the attraction.

I don't think that literary editors are doing a particularly good job, these days. That may be because they've all been fired.

LLMs can do a decent job of editing, but it imparts a "sameness" to the writing.

Get used to it. I don't think we're far from every bit of prose online, being at least edited, if not authored, by AI.

If people don't want to read AI, then they won't be reading anything but literary classics.

I'm not saying I find the prospect thrilling; just that it's inevitable.

As for the topic, projecting values, and life stories onto people from single data points, is a favorite sport of just about anyone. We often see people on this very forum, praising or attacking others as a person, and assigning motives; based on only a single comment. One habit that I've developed, is if someone posts something either in support or in opposition to one of my posts, I look them up, and try to find out as much as possible about them, before responding. It often fails, because people don't want others to know about them, but I suspect that it succeeds, a lot more than people might think.

If I were a serious gamer (I'm not), then I'd get a hardware rig, but otherwise, I've not needed it.

I had a doctor that kept an original NT machine, for many years, because his bespoke app worked on it.

That part will still be necessary. I suspect LLMs can help polish and optimize self-promotion, but that also means everyone else will be doing it, and the competition is likely to be stiff.

Why are you so interested in defending DOGE?

Solutions aren't always good solutions. We need to drill into the details, but not the problem's details. We need to look at the solution's details.

https://littlegreenviper.com/problems-and-solutions/

LLMs have been a huge force multiplier. Here.

If that data got out (which probably happened within hours of the data being dumped to insecure storage), then it’s probably already been analyzed and used to leverage access.

After the DOGE debacle, I suspect that all the previously really secure stuff, is now out there, too. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these leaks, came from that.

FBI employee data is very bad.

https://cybersquirrel1.com/

BLE is actually pretty secure, but it does advertise, and some folks take advantage of that.

It's like that kid down the block, with the sweet hot rod that rattles the windows, when he drives past, but whenever you drive past his house, the car is up on blocks, and he's working on it.

Working on tools can be a lot of fun, but I like working on stuff that ships, so I prefer tools that don't require much work.

At one time, every programmer was supposed to be able to analyze a crash dump.

I think it's been a long time, since your average coder has been able to do that, and that's a good thing.

The reason is that the tools became good enough, and reliable enough, to trust.

We are still expected to stand behind the results of our work. It's just that we have learned to trust the tools we use, enough to do so.

We will reach that point with AI tools, sooner or later (maybe sooner).

Accountability will still rest on all-too-human shoulders, but the tools and the scope of our work will change.

At one time, in my career, that was actually expected.

Times, they are a changin'...

Marketing folks talked like that, for almost my entire career (it was basically a meme), which wound up, as AI was coming into its own.

I’m wondering if anyone just flat-out admits they used LLMs in their work. I have no problem, doing that, myself, but I also have the luxury of not having my livelihood on the line, and not being overly-concerned about what people think of me.

Eventually, I assume that AI will affect every aspect of the industry, and it will actually be a signal of effectiveness, to claim its use. I could see a day, when claims of not using AI would be like artisans, declaring their work to be “genuine hand-crafted,” and relegated to fairly small, specialized corners of the industry.